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5 Skills To Set Yourself Apart from the Rest

You’ve gotten into a great college, are completing your education, and have made the excellent choice to take advantage of co-op- you’re on the road to success! We have one question for you, though: how are your soft skills coming along? You’re thinking to yourself, “Wait a minute. I thought you just said I was on the road to success. What else is there?!”

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Statistics Canada Hackathon CANDEV Comes to Ottawa

When: October 20-21 at uOttawa.

Do you want to show off your skills at a 24 hour intensive hackathon? Statistics Canada is introducing the new nation-wide initiative ‘CANDEV’, a Data Challenge with Ottawa being its first stop. Starting October 20 at the University of Ottawa, postsecondary students will engage in an exhilarating 24 hours of work on user stories or business cases provided by their public sector partners.

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An RBC Advice Event: Making Your Money Last Through the Year

We posted around this time last year, one of the most obvious stereotypes of students is the financial struggle: surviving on ramen, counting out pennies (or, nowadays, nickels) for laundry, picking up whatever extra shifts come along. And it is true that your time spent in school can be among the most frugal times of your life. The fresh, crisp fall air is now out to play, and we are already in week five of the 2018 fall semester. You’re asking yourself, ‘Okay, tuition has been paid and textbooks have been purchased. My savings and loans are in hand and available to me. What next?’

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